Obviously, this is NOT the official position of the USBE Board, but I just wanted to start out by acknowledging and thanking the almost 500 parents and grandparents who wrote the Board and reached out to me hoping the Board would vote for a model policy that would actually prevent porn, in any form, in…
First, I want to say, Thank You! Thank you for fighting for your children, for writing in to the State Board and legislators to speak up for our children’s innocence and their safety. We are living in strange times. Who would’ve thought that standing up for bright line protections against sexually explicit content for our…
The University of Brussels used to have the Latin version of “Truth Conquers Darkness” (veritas vincere tenebras) as its motto. It has since changed the first word to science instead of truth. I think the shift in education has been a consistent shift in a focus away from discerning truth. Now we are focused, not…
The Utah Education and Mental Health Coordinating Council went spectacularly off the rails Wednesday, June 8. Presenters pulled out all the stops to transform education and mental health practices and operations into a Woke circus of centralized planning antics gone unchecked. Video with commentary on highlights of DSAMH study of “unfair” Systems [Rumble.com] Lowlights included…
The county-wide “mask” mandate issued by the Salt Lake County Health Department Friday, January 7, is much worse than you realize. Come Monday, thousands of parents will be sending their kids to schools in masks, thinking that that will be enough to comply with the order. Think again. Late Sunday night, the Salt Lake County…
Big win for parents! Granite School District’s Canvas settings no longer allow the selection of pronouns in a student’s personal profile. The problem was first reported by a concerned parent earlier this week. After calls to the district by parents and social media exposure of the issue, it looks as if a student’s pronoun information is…
Why is Granite School District breaking the law? And how in the world are they getting away with it? The answer may surprise you…. These screenshots were taken in December of 2021. What you are looking at is 3 different student profile pages on the CANVAS web-based learning management system used by almost every…
Standardized testing claims to be able to measure a student’s academic skills and even intelligence… Pretty high claim for a process that’s highly subjective and definitely unscientific. First, read this (yes I know it’s on HuffPost, but press on, it’s eye opening): Then, if you haven’t done this for your kids already, OPT OUT of…
At the December Utah State Board of Education meeting, Member Carol Lear took Christmas spirit to a whole new level by using her Member Message time to take a cheap shot at… Christians. And then she handed out hula hoops. We could comment on the professionalism on display in this memorable moment but the video…
When I first viewed this video, a line from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol came to mind: “There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited….” Utah State Board of Education Member Natalie Cline is the embodiment of this idea: doing what’s right by defending kids from…
